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ricardofbarros/inheritance
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Easy Multiple Inheritance for Classes in PHP

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Inheritance
===========

[](#inheritance)

Make multiple inheritances in PHP effortlessly, without alot of fuss and some potential headaches. **It's easy as pie, trust me!**

How does this work?
-------------------

[](#how-does-this-work)

Well it's simple, when you extend 'Inheritance' to your main class (child), you will gain a new method '\_\_inherit', this method will accept an array with objects or the name of your classes, see To construct or not to construct for further understanding, next it will store all non-static public and protected methods and properties using Reflection.

For example, when you call a method it will trigger 'Inheritance' magic method '\_\_call', and if this method exists in any class inherited, it will invoke this method.

Inheritances uses the following magic methods '\_\_call', '\_\_set', '\_\_get'

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

### Composer Install

[](#composer-install)

Just follow these simple steps to install Inheritance in your project:

1. Get [Composer](http://getcomposer.org)
2. Run this command to install Inheritance in your project dir

```
composer require ricardofbarros/inheritance:dev-master
```

3. Start inheriting stuff right away

```
class ClassA extends \Inheritance {

...

}
```

### Manual Install

[](#manual-install)

Download and extract the Inheritance package into your project directory and require it and register Inheritance autoloader in your application’s bootstrap file.

```
require "path/to/inheritance/src/Inheritance.php"

Inheritance::registerAutoloader();
```

Basic Usage
-----------

[](#basic-usage)

```
## ClassA.php
class ClassA extends \Inheritance {

    public function __construct() {
        parent::__inherit(array(
            new ClassB(),
            new ClassC()
         ));
    }

    public function test() {
       return parent::hello().' '.parent::world();
    }
}

## ClassB.php
class ClassB  {
    protected function hello() {
        return 'Hello';
    }
}

## ClassC.php
class ClassC {
    protected function world() {
        return 'World!';
    }
}

## somefile.php
$class = new ClassA();

// Output : Hello World!
echo $class->test();
```

> **NOTE:** For some more usage examples, see files in `examples` dir

To construct or not to construct?
---------------------------------

[](#to-construct-or-not-to-construct)

You can decide if you want to construct a class or just bypass the '\_\_constructor', it's very simple to do that just see the example bellow.

```
class ClassA extends \Inheritance {

    public function __construct() {
        parent::__inherit(array(
            'ClassB', // This will instance the class bypassing a potential existence of a constructor
            new ClassC() // This will call __construct() as expected
         ));
    }

    public function test() {
       return parent::hello().' '.parent::world();
    }
}
```

Features
--------

[](#features)

- Access to protected and public methods
- Access to protected and public properties
- Throw exceptions for the use of protected properties and methods in an invalid scope
- Decide which classes inherited you want to construct or instantiate without constructing

###  Health Score

20

—

LowBetter than 14% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

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**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

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